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SANFORD S. BURR, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

LettersPatent No.` 106,776, dated August 30, 1870.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making peri: of the same.

Be it known that I, SANFORD S. BURR, of Boston, in the county of-Suli'olk and Commonwealth-of Massahuset-tshave made an invention of certain Improvements in Secretary or Wardrode Bedsteads, so called; andv do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exa-et description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is-a perspective View, and

Figure 2, a vertical section of my invention. My inveution consists- First, in a. secretary-bedstead, composed of a folding bedstead-frame proper and an outer removable shell or case, which, while adapted to receive the said -b'edstead-frame, can he easily detached and removed therefrom, as hereinafter set forth. v

Second, in the construction of the bedstead with two main frames hinged to a central trough or su'ppox-t, and also to an intermediate frame, which, when the hed is folded up, is received in saidtrough, as hereinafter shown and described.

The drawing which accompanies and is an illustra.- tion of this specification, and of my present invention, exhibits, at A, an upright rectangular shelll or structure, of wood, open at rear, and mounted upon suita ble casters, the structure being produced as a perfect counterfeit of a secretary, sideboard, or other analogous article of household furniture, and, iu addition to being entire or formed without doors or other movable parts, is so light, owin g to its simple nature, as to be very easily trundled along the door and away from the bedstead proper, the said structure being no part of surh bedstead, but merely serving as a screen to hide the latter from` view when not in use.

The bed or lhed-bottom is shown in the drawing as composed. of two rectangular slatted frames, B O, arranged end on to each other, and with their inner or contiguous ends hinged to the opposite' upper side of an intermediate support or` trongh, D, this latter object being disposed in parallelism with the s lats of the two frames, B O.

.E represents a narrow slatted auxiliary frame, disposed 'bet-ween the two main frames, B O, and depending from the extreme inner ends of the latter by means of straps or hangers F G, which are so swiveled thereto as to permit the frame Eto remain-in a hori'zontal position, while the frames B G are swung to a perpendicular altitude, yand thus .serve to sustain the weight of the mattress and bed-clothing.

When the bed is not occupied the two frames, B and O, are swung into a perpendicular position, the auxiliary frame hy lhisact being lowered into the vtrough D, and the fold of the mattress, which, by

the saure act-, beeon'ies doubled, follows, and is supported hy such trough. This trough' also serves, -hy resting upon the floor-,as a firm support to the middle of the bed, and is to he provided with casters; in order that the position of such bed may be' easily shifted.

The .two frames B C are provided with suitable turn-down legs, to secureI a correct horizontal position when lowered tothe floor.

Eig. 2 of the accompanying drawing represents the bed as folded and covered hy the shell A, while fig. -1 represents the bed as' lowered into a horizontal attituile, ready for occupancy, and with the shell A trundled away from it.

Claims.

I claiml. A secretary-bedstead, composed of a folding bedstead-frame propel' and an outer removable shell or case, which, while adapted to receive the said bedst-ead-i'anie, can be entirely detached and removed therefrom whenever there is occasion for the use of the bedstead, as vherein shown and set'forth.

2. lA folding bedstead, composed of the two flames, B C, the intermediate frame l1},and the central trough or support D, said parts being constructed and 'are ranged for joint operation, as shown and described.

, SANFORD S. BURR.

Witnesses:

FRED. CURTIS, J. B. BLANCHARD. 

